Hair-coiling device



March 25, 1924. 1,488,005 FREEMAN HAIR COILING DEVICE Filed April 23 1923 auocmtoz.

Patented lv'lar. .25, 1924.

MARY FREEMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAIFv-CGILING DEVICE.

Application filed April 23, 1923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, MARY FREEMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair- Coiling Devices, of which the following is :1 specification, suflicient to enable those conversant with the art to which the invention appertains to utilize the same.

My improvements relate to the spindles or cores around which hair is coiled for treatment in electrical heating and curling apparatus, such as well known in the present state of the art; and my object is to afiord a hair coiling device having decided practical advantages over the cylindrical rods heretofore employed for the purpose,-the invention consisting in the specific construction, combination and arrangement of parts described and claimed,and a distinctive feature being the use of twin interlocking flat clamping bars, around one of which the lock of hair is wound, while the other acts as a retainer and auxiliary heating medium, all as hereafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings 1 exemplify a practical embodiment of the essential features of my device, although I do not limit myself to the identical form and construction of parts shown, since changes and modifications -in minor details may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and intent of my invention in this respect.

With this understanding,

Fig. 1, is an isometrical view of the socket member of the clamp;

Fig. 2, is an isometrical view of the tenon member of the clamp;

Figure 3, is an isometrical view of the coupling sleeve;

Fig. 4:, is an isometrical view of the socket bar with a strand of hair wound thereon;

Fig. 5, an isometrical view of the device with the tenon member engaging the socket member.

Fig. 6, is an end elevation of the socket bar or member; and

Fig. 7, is an end elevation of the tenon bar or member of my hair coil clamp.

My device consists of three co-related and co-acting parts, namely, the socket member or bar S, the tenon member or bar T, and the clamping sleeve C. All three are pre ferably, but not necessarily, made from Serial No. 633,995.

strips of flat sheet metal, bent up into the required shape, although as a matter of fact twin metallic rods of other configuration in cross section may be substituted with equivalent results provided the socket member S, is formed with a coupling hole or socket s, and the tenon member T. with a coupling pin or tenon t. for engagement with said socket s, substantially as indicated in Fig. 5, of the drawings. Obviously, also, the clamping sleeve C, may consistof any rigid loop adapted to embrace the otherwise free ends of the socket bar S, and the tenon bar T.

hen the parts are made of strips of flat sheet metal as shown in the drawings, one end of the socket member S, is bent over at right angles (or essentially so) to the length of the bar, constituting a lateral bearing or off set 8, in which the coupling hole or socket s, is formed; and one end of the tenon member T, is bent, twisted, or contracted to form the tenon t. This fiat metallic strip construction has the advantage of simplicity and cheapn'ess, and is effectual for all practical purposes,

By preference, and as matter of convenience of manipulation, the lock of hair it, to be curled or bobbed, is coiled around the socket member S, in such manner that the lateral shoulder 8, may be utilized as a rest and support for the first convolution of the coil of hair it, as shown more particularly in Fig. 4:, of the drawings, in which the strand of hair h, is coiled for a relatively long curl,it being understood that for bobbed curls the hair is coiled more compactly on the core S, in a manner well known in the art,my invention relating solely to the specific type of coiling and clamping device shown, and which type I believe to be original with myself.

When the lock or strand of hair h, is coiled in the desired manner around the core S, the tenon t, of the tenon rod T, is inserted in the socket s, and the clamping sleeve C, pressed down over the other ends of the bars S, T, thus firmly holding the coil of hair h, in place and compressing it between said bars S, T.

It is to be understood in this connection that the coil of hair h, might be wound around the tenon bar T, if desired, so that I do not limit myself in this respect to the method of wind shown in Figs. 4 and 5, of the drawings.

The twin members S, T, of my coiling device not only function as clamping means, but afford as additional heating medium. In other Words, the part used as the spindle or core, as S, in Figs. 4 and 5, of the drawings, is supplemented by the tenon bar T, as a heating medium, it being taken for granted of course, that the parts assembled as illustrated in F ig, 5, are pad-wrapped, then inserted in the usual paper tube, and finally positioned in one of the series of electrical heaters forming a component part of any of the hair curling apparatus known in the art.

My fiat metallic coil clamp is especially eflicacious in the production of Marcel efiect on the hair thus treated; and the contaotual engagement of the clamp on two sides of the coil (the inside and on one outer side) renders the crimp more effective and permanent than where the hair is simply coiled around a cylindrical rod or core, as heretofore. Furthermore, in the latter case, the

element of compression of the coilof hair between opposed metallic heating surfaces is lacking.

l/Vhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

A metallic hair curling device for use in electric heating and curling apparatus of the character designated, comprising a one piece flat spool member formed at one extremity with a rectangular shoulder having a coupling socket, a one piece flat binding member having one end inturned to form a tenon for insertion in the said coupling socket of the spool member, and a clamping sleeve fitting over the otherwise free flat ends of said spool member and said binding mem ber, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

MARY FREEMAN. Witnesses G120. 'WM. MrAT'r, MARGARET K. HANSTEIN. 

